Cycling is about "Safe exercise" and "Safe low-emission travel" The Health and Fitness objective is UNDERMINED if the means of exercise is UNSAFE! This blog STRONGLY OPPOSES certain reforms VicRoads is currently considering: “cyclists could be allowed to treat red lights as Give Way signs. And the same could also APPLY at pedestrian lights."
Also "PERMITTING cyclists, riding cautiously, to proceed past a stationary tram;" "allowing teenagers to ride on footpaths"(Herald Sun)PDowe

Tuesday, November 8, 2016

Community Safety Cyberbullying Bullying in Schools Cyber bullying crisis in Australian schools: Attacks soar - including one where students 'assaulted a classmate in the toilets so they could made a VIDEO' "Cyber-bullying is becoming a bigger issue than drug abuse, experts said" Daily Mail Australia 9 November 2016 Smartphones Social Media Social "Knowledge" Social Contagion Social Exclusion "As a society we have only said NO to #overtbullying We have opened the floodgates to covert bullying and cyberbullying Woo hoo!" Pete Dowe

#cyberbullying #covertbullying

As a society we have only said NO to #overtbullying

We have opened the floodgates to covert bullying and cyberbullying

Woo hoo!

Pete Dowe

Cyber bullying crisis in Australian schools: Attacks soar - including one where students 'assaulted a classmate in the toilets so they could made a VIDEO'

NSW Education Department revealed 152 cases of cyber-bullying in 2015

It is the first year public primary and high schools have had to report cases

They included sexting, swapping graphic images and filming fights

Cyber-bullying is becoming a bigger issue than drug abuse, experts said

A student filming an attack on a fellow classmate so it could be posted online is just one of a growing number of cyber-bullying cases.

The issue is becoming a bigger problem for young people than drugs, according to psychologists.

The NSW Education Department revealed 152 instances of cyber-bullying were reported from public primary and high school last year, including exchanging nude videos or graphic images, sexting and blackmail, The Daily Telegraph reported.

It is the first year schools have been ordered to report any incidents involving technology, which affects about 20 percent of adolescents, adolescent psychologist Dr Michael Carr-Gregg said.

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More than 150 cases of cyber-bullying at NSW public schools were reported last year, including exchanging nude videos or graphic images, sexting and filming fights (stock image)

'There is a parallel [with drug abuse] - the difference is it's the parents giving the kids the mobile phones,' he said.